Motivational Quotes

Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

- Mcgoorty, Danny

Best Quotes about Work

Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.

Burns, Mamie Sypert

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.

Kempis, Thomas

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good job The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please The two most important words: Thank You The one most important word: We The least important word: I.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.

Herbert, George

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

The best work never was and never will be done for money.

Ruskin, John

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Gillman, Charlotte P.

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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.

Prince, Ray

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I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.

Hayes, Woody

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The intellectual equipment needed for the job of the future is an ability to define problems, quickly assimilate relevant data, conceptualize and reorganize the information, make deductive and inductive leaps with it, ask hard questions about it, discuss findings with colleagues, work collaboratively to find solutions and then convince others.

Reich, Robert B.

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How do I work? I grope.

Einstein, Albert

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

Kemp, Jack

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Gretzky, Wayne

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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

Oakley, Ann

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Lowell, James Russell

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Getty, J. Paul

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We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.

Brown, Dean Charles R.

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We work to become, not to acquire.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Keller, Helen

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

Valery, Paul

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You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone.

Rutte, Martin

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Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

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You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

Lisa Kudrow

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Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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If food were free, why work?

Horton, Doug

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Angelou, Maya

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When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.

Saintamo, Michael De

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Atkinson, Brooks

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The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Keller, Helen

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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Benchley, Robert

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I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

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Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick